Oneiric, Calibre 0.8.8 from the official Ubuntu repo, same behavior. I poked around a little and it seems that Calibre sets an impossible size requirement on the WM. xprop returns the following:
[ snip ] program specified minimum size: 16383 by 16383 program specified size: 16777215 by 16777215 While this is most certainly a *glaring* omission on the part of Metacity and gnome-shell which both crash and/or consume inordinate amounts of memory trying to allocate billions of pixels, Calibre should play nice as well. (Unity was the only WM which actually let Calibre run, giving it an invisible window; that's how I got to xprop it in the first place.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/812258 Title: calibre don't launch and eat all ressource To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calibre/+bug/812258/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
